Designing cycle-attractiveness

Designing cycle-attractiveness

van Doesburg, K.

Aalbers, K.P.M. (mentor)
Rooij, R.M. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

2017-04-21

This study responds to cities in the world focussing more and more on implementing a bicycle infrastructure. The bicycle infrastructure is often envisioned to make the city more attractive for the people (again), however a lot of the criteria to design for the bicycle infrastructure are left vague and (too) open for interpretation as 'attractiveness' is something personal. Because of this lack of definition the space for the cyclist is able to get compromised for other functions. This study shows that the further definition (per type of cyclist) of spatial design criteria for cycle-attractiveness could become a more elaborated evaluationtool for design choices when putting the priority for the space on cyclists per type and in different scales within the city. Next to this, this study shows the possible impact on other users/stakeholders of the public space. The city of Amsterdam is used as a showcase on how to use the evaluationtool and what could be achieved while using it.

cycling
bicycle
infrastructure
attractiveness
Amsterdam
public space
evaluationtool
spatial design criteria

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Student theses

master thesis

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